Danthonia] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 519 
Perennial ;_ blades seta- 
ceous = SS cana- 
liculat gid, 3~2 in. 
— spikelets ie lin. 
ve-lobes cilio- 
oe ee wes ... (15) purpurea, 
— ralve-labes trun- 
not ou ... (16) tenella. 
Not dw: io or 1 =o ope pani- 
fe wer- node pee 
bine lobes long, setaceously 
(17) curva. 
Spikelets ath lin. ‘long and 
wned, at least from 
lobes not long setaceously 
acuminate ; 
Culms and leaves more 
t least of the lower 
Siu, bifid valves, 
1 lin. 
"Sutetescen lower 
meer! “cries (18) suffrutescens. 
He coe low 
sheets: thin * (19) glauca. 
Culms and lea $s qui te 
stibuiene 4 collet 2 7009 
nu 
8 
nthers }—} lin. long ... (20) inermis. 
Malaria bide +6 - — sconce 
stogamous, nty racemes or 
‘cae branches pt cea ior ... (21) decumbens. 
; 1. D. macrantha (Schrad. in Schult. Mant. ii, 385); perennial, 
uted; culms erect or shortly ascending, stout below, Ae ania 
f ore or less branched at some distanee above the (branches 
ae densely leafy to the middle or towards it, 2-3 ft. long, gla- 
“eet Smooth, lower internodes very short, upper 3 or 4 long, exserted ; 
aves glabrous ; — firm, striate, s _ lower aly very 
humerous and clos upper much narrow often loose ; ligule a 
i of short aie ; blades tightly pr tea eek sa or canaliculate, 
arely loosely involute or partly flat, tapering to a long setaceous 
